Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Tallahassee, FL, USA

The role

A Senior Android Engineer will own major features and work with the design team to support the Android app user base. The role involves shaping the Android team, improving reliability metrics, and participating in cross-team discussions.

What you will do

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team
• Shape the future of our Android team
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Participate in discussions across different teams
• Review pull requests, and support other teammates
• Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Familiarity with Android components
• Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app
• Product design intuition and user empathy
• Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX
• Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase above and beyond what's outlined in the spec
• Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests
• Excellent communication skills
• User oriented problem solving approach
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

Nice to have

• Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
• Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS

Benefits

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• A hands-off management approach
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry
• Competitive salaries
• A friendly and laid-back atmosphere
• A commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences

Before you apply

• Include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn

About the company

Speechify makes sure that reading is never a barrier to learning through text-to-speech products. Nearly 200 people work in a 100% distributed setting.